Description:
Horrible Mothers offers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mother in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century francophone literature and film. Contributors reexamine the "horrible mother" paradigm within a broad range of sociocultural contexts from different locations in North America to broaden the understanding of mothering beyond traditional ideology.
Review Quotes: "This timely volume invigorates scholarly attention to the role of the mother in culture and advocates for a reading of motherhood and maternity imbued with empowering potential for all women whose value is measured according to social expectations of mothers."--Jocelyn A. Frelier, French Studies